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Sibling spillover effects and educational outcomes in Ghana and Niger

Zhang, Huafeng; Holden, Stein Terje - 2024

This study investigates the impact of sibling effects on children's educational outcomes in Ghana and Niger, with a … Functional Module (WG-CFM) to identify children’s disability status. The analysis reveals a performance gap for children with … significant for children with disabilities in Ghana. In Ghana, older sisters positively and significantly influence the …

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Geschlechterungleichheiten in Arbeit, Wohlfahrtsstaat und Familie : Festschrift für Karin Gottschall

Scherger, Simone (ed.); Abramowski, Ruth (ed.); … - 2021

In den letzten Jahrzehnten gab es Erfolge in der Bekämpfung von Ungleichheiten zwischen Männern und Frauen. Gleichzeitig verringern sich diese Ungleichheiten nur langsam. Die Autor_innen diskutieren die (wohlfahrts-)staatliche Regulierung von Geschlechterverhältnissen. Neben konzeptionellen...

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The short run effects of childbirth on parents’ earnings in the Baltics

Černiauska, Nerijus - In: Baltic journal of economics 23 (2023) 1, pp. 45-63

parental leave benefits compared to the EU and norms encouraging mothers to care for children. I carry out an event study to … period. This results in a widening earnings gap in the Baltics, more so than in several comparison countries (Denmark …

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The Rise in Female Participation in Colombia : Children, Education or Marital Status

Amador, Diego; Bernal, Raquel; Pe??a, Ximena - 2012

Colombia has experienced a secular increase in female labor participation, which passed from nearly 47% in 1984 to 65% in 2006. We decompose the evolution of participation into changes in the composition of the population and changes in the participation rates by groups (defined according to the...

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Family change in Latin America : schooling and labor market implications for children and women

Esteve, Albert; Castro Torres, Andrés Felipe; Becca, … - 2023

status in which women raise their children and the family context in which children are raised. We refer to family context as … inequality of opportunities in family change. Second, we focus on the implications of family forms on children's school …This chapter provides an account of the major family transformations that occurred in recent decades across Latin …

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Are Poles stuck in overeducation? : individual dynamics of educational mismatch in Poland

Baran, Jan Aleksander - In: Baltic journal of economics 24 (2024) 1, pp. 145-179

The paper investigates the short-run job mobility of educationally mismatched workers, examining the validity of the Sicherman-Galor hypothesis, which predicts that overeducation is a temporary condition from a worker's perspective associated with higher upward occupational and wage mobility....

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Back to work : the effect of a long-term career interruption on subsequent wages in Switzerland

Speiser, Amélie - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 157 (2021) 1, pp. 1-14

Swiss Household Panel (SHP) and a fixed effects estimation method allows us to account for time-constant unobserved …

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Gender implicit bias and glass ceiling effects

Espinosa, María Paz; Ferreira, Eva - 2022

Implicit gender bias may affect hiring and promotion decisions, implying inefficiencies in the outcome of selection processes. We focus on the dynamics of gender bias when selecting candidates for a committee or position, and obtain the long-run female share as well as the conditions for a glass...

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Sibling correlations and intergenerational mobility across immigrant groups

Colagrossi, Marco; Deiana, Claudio; Geraci, Andrea; … - 2024

We study immigrant assimilation in terms of earnings dynamics and patterns of intergenerational transmission in permanent earnings by immigrant generation and neighborhood segregation levels. We estimate comparable sibling correlations across native and immigrant groups, but these seem to be...

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Parental educational homogamy and children's tertiary education in Europe

Blossfeld, Pia Nicoletta; Katrňák, Tomáš; Manea, … - In: Comparative population studies : CPoS ; open acess … 49 (2024), pp. 243-272

In this paper, we examine (1) whether parental educational homogamy is associated with children's tertiary educational … important for children's tertiary educational attainment. In particular, children of more highly educated homogamous parents are …

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